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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Support for Logging for IBM ACE

To compete with Nodinite that currently offers logging for IBM ACE. https://docs.nodinite.com/Documentation/LoggingAndMonitoring/IBM%20Integration%20Bus Could also be if we can use OpenTelemetry to gather logs from IBM ACE that may be an option?
28 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 0 Submitted

Addition of K8's events in custom payload to add in alerts

It would be really good to have k8s events under custom payloads to be added in alerts to let the spoc know where the issue lies ,or what happened at the last with the component,
28 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Expand All the Parent Child Grouping Alarms in WebGUI Event Viewer GUI

Our NOC team is looking for an option to expand all the parent child grouped alarms in single click. As of now, they are expanding single set of parent child group as per their need. If we have one option to use expand/collapse the grouping alarms...
28 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Add a way to be able quick filter NetFlow widget in DI

Not every user is comfortable with editing a widget to create a filter for a Flow widget. Would be great if there was a way to create a quick filter from the main report. For example, for view is Top Applications; provide a way to filter applicati...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 5 Planned for future release

Reset Baseline on entire device history

Currently you are limited to resetting the baseline for the past week to correct abnormalities that may have had happen in the past week. There are times when new services are turned up or processes are changed so a device will deviate from its st...
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

CP4AIOps Connections - warning when creating Connections with invalid names

When creating a Connection in CP4AIOps (to Instana), you can create this Connection using characters like "_" with no warning. However, the Connection fails later on because of these illegal characters. It would be better if a warning appears when...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

View the usage of K8s PV(PersistentVolume) and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the PV usage exceeds 80%)

I want to monitor the usage of PV in Kubernetes and trigger an event when the usage exceeds a certain amount compared to the total usage. I would like to request the addition of this function.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Functionality already exists

View and download the SUM/AVG of Pod's CPU/Memory usage based on K8s Namespace

The customer is checking the usage by Kubernetes namespace using "kubectl top pod -n namespace" and said that this function is essential. And they want to download the result of the command as an excel file, etc. They request that the following fu...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Needs more information